castration was handled by the the power of the church (at the time the council of apostles) not the nicene creed. — hachit
The nicene creed made because people were questioned the divinity of Jesus and\or God. This was a problem because the sacrifice means nothing if he was less then God then he was not the perfect sacrifice. — hachit
The differences between creeds, both within and across religions, are human inventions, not God's invention. — ernestm
Then there were others that believed in two Gods one that was evil (the God that the Christian belief now) and another that was trying to save us from him. — hachit
Lastly the Christians are stll debates salvation, i believe in by faith, others the book of life, and others good works (there the ones I know but there could be more). — hachit
After looking at the wickapeta article I see that you misread, that was there reason the council was called it had nothing to do with the Nicene Creed. Wich I'm assume you did actually read. — hachit
Personally, I just noticed one day it said 'Baptist' on the sign. One time I asked the pastor 'what is Baptist? What makes this a Baptist church?'. He said something along the lines of 'oh it's from John the Baptist.' Maybe I didn't pay much attention but I don't ever remember him speaking about him once. — Outlander
The biggest problem they realised was that there was no unified doctrine and so the nicene creed along with a few other was put into affect to be that unified doctrine. — hachit
However because the creed said nothing about castration the debate was not over. — hachit
Well all these questions can be answered with a concept of the Holy Spirit. The idea is that thè Spirit will lead us in the right direction. One alone may be deceived but it harder for the entire congregation to be deceive and when we here the truth the Holy Spirit will help us recognize it. Of course this only works if you believe in God before hand. — hachit
Perhaps blaming a religion for the misdeeds of religious authority is due to the aggressors' repressed childhood dread of going to church on Christmas day, before being allowed to open their presents. — ernestm
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